This was certainly true of the late Lord Goodman, an enormously powerful lawyer who was also an enormous man, and who would have cut much less of a figure around town had he been less vast.
Its historic significance is less obvious, but vast.
That is less than its vast oil reserves promise to put into the state's coffers but a lot easier to negotiate.
For Fincher, I would guess, the identity of the killer is less important than the vast effort of almost (but not quite) finding him.
To put this in context, this is less than what the vast majority of consumers around the world pay to keep the lights on.
As a result, the game is less dependent on amassing vast armies than the prequel with the subsequent improvement in frame rate and performance.
Whereas T cells are likely responding to autoantigens whose nature has been partially defined [ 7, 8], the pathogenic role of B cells in JIA is less clear, because the vast majority of patients test negative for rheumatoid factors [ 2].
And although the defence department has a budget of $440 billion, there is less wiggle room than that vast sum suggests, says Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution, a think-tank.
The average loan-to-value ratio is less than 60%, meaning the vast majority of homeowners have a "substantial cushion of equity" to protect them from any further slump in the market, the CML said.
It seems strange to worry about China exporting inflation as Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, did recently when the country's consumer-price inflation is less than 1.5% and its vast manufacturing (over capacity has led to a steady drop in global goods prices from shoes to electronics.
